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In the current world Apple is not actually able to compromise your iPhone, warrant or not, by design (remember the whole FBI debacle?). Encryption is done throu

by lovecg 3y ago

In the current world Apple is not actually able to compromise your iPhone, warrant or not, by design (remember the whole FBI debacle?). Encryption is done through separate hardware on the phone that they can’t remotely bypass. In the world you’re proposing they would have to be legally compelled to engineer a weaker system. That’s the problem.

noelsusman 3y ago
I could be wrong but I don't remember Apple claiming it was literally impossible for them to open an iPhone. If that were true then Apple wouldn't have had to fight them at all. The government can't force you to do impossible things. Apple objected to being compelled to create the tooling to bypass an iPhone's security. That implies they can do it whenever they want, they just choose not to.
- rekoil 3y ago
  They could create a build with unlock attempts removed, making it possible to brute-force weaker unlock schemes. That's what they didn't want to do because if they created something like that they would lose a lot of customers.
  - acchow 3y ago
    Are unlock attempt limits not built into the security chip?
    - rekoil 3y ago
      I wasn't sure about that so I erred on the side of caution, but I do think that is how it works yes.
WeylandYutani 3y ago
You already can't sideload Signal on an iPhone. The Apple store is a single point of failure that's being ignored by too many.